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I know a lot of people who write posts about how one should blog based on their personal experience, I get a lot of emails asking for pointers, so here’s a list I compiled that is the anti-advice or what I call “5 blogging mistakes I make that you should avoid”.

1. Be irrelevant: Over 50 percent of my visitors stop by for themes and support, another 35 percent make it here by clicking a link related to, you go it, themes or support, yet I write blogs on issues that bother me like George Bush, or our environment or our absolute disregard towards the value of human lives outside of America. Should you then stop blogging about such trivial subjects you ask, the simple answer is no, but create an asides category/section for such blogs and continue voicing your opinions, a true blog is one that speaks the blogger’s mind, but try and keep it away from what the majority of your users want.
2. Be irregular: While the frequency of my blog posts fully depends on how many minutes each day I can squeeze out from doing other boring things like work, not being regular is a sure way to lose audience. While some of my peers are writing 9 blogs a day, I barely get by 9 in 9 days! If you care to build and maintain a readers community, you need to make time and write a few lines, at least to assure your users that you are around (and well).
3. Don’t think before you (l)ink: Speed-linking, copy-paste and adding a smart ass line is fine if you are running a celebrity gossip site, but if you are serious about your image, pause, take a breather, think, and then make your case. Most importantly, stick with your position, unless you are completely off on your assumptions in which case, be graceful enough to admit that you are wrong.
4. Shoot yourself in the foot, speak your mind: I do this often, my temper brings the worst in me, especially when people are unreasonable, but remember your readers are not going to come back if you call them assholes and be thankful instead that they are actually reading your crap.
5. Don’t say the obvious, be profound: I sometimes start writing a post and end up wasting a lot of time only because I have nothing profound to say, but no one needs to hear your 2 cents. Look around and you will find most “Pro bloggers” doling out “Daily tips” that are obvious. What they are doing is reinforcing your own beliefs and practices by saying, “I do the same shit”, and then you feel good about it because now you know you are also doing “it” like the pros!

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